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Definition of Sperrylite
1. n. An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.
Definition of Sperrylite
1. Noun. (minerology) An isometric-diploidal tin white mineral containing arsenic and platinum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sperrylite
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Medical Definition of Sperrylite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sperrylite
| speromagnetic speronara sperre sperred sperres sperring sperrylite (current term) sperrylites sperse spersed | sperses spersing sperst sperthe sperthes spertiniite spesh speshul spessartine spessartines | spessartite |
Literary usage of Sperrylite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economic Mineralogy: A Practical Guide to the Study of Useful Minerals by Thomas Crook (1921)
"... crystalline precipitate of potassium chloroplatinate is obtained by adding
potassium chloride. sperrylite (named after Mr. Sperry of Sudbury, Ontario). ..."
2. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrography from the Laboratories of the by Samuel Lewis Penfield, Louis Valentine Pirsson (1901)
"ON THE CRYSTALLINE FORM OF sperrylite. BY SL PENFIELD. (From Amer. Jour.
Sci., 1889, vol. 37, pp. 71-78.) THE crystalline form of ..."
3. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1899)
"sperrylite, Occurrence of, in North Carolina. Found in nugget-like masses and
cubo- ^ E- Bidden. Am. Jour. Sci., 4, 6: octahedral crystals, with rounded ..."
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